African animism is the oldest religion in the world. It evolved during the 200,000 years that Homo sapiens existed on the African continent. Belief in the spirit world, in the afterlife, in the co-existence of the dead with the living, are tenets of faith that continue to prevail throughout Africa. It was carried intact in the first wave of migration to the farthest reaches of Asia and was carried across to the Americas 15,000 years ago. In the Orient, it is described by the West as Ancestor Worship. In North America it is Shamanism, after the shamans or priests of the Native Americans. All...